NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • DOJ's Tony West Defends Record on Whistleblowers • Firms to Update Congress on Black Farmers' Claim Money • Court Rules Cooperating Inmate Not A 'Government Agent' • D.C. Superior Court Nominees Voted Out of Committee • Oklahoma AG Cracks Down on Post-Disaster Price Gouging • Vermont Becomes First State to File 'Patent Troll' Suit Acting Associate Attorney General Tony West defended the U.S. Department of Justice's record with whistleblowers Thursday, testifying on Capitol Hill that his leadership led to the recovery of more taxpayer money than at any other time in American history. "The... Read More » The lead class attorneys who helped secure a $1.25 billion settlement in 2011 for black farmers in a high-profile discrimination case have called on Crowell & Moring and Stinson Morrison Hecker for help on Capitol Hill, according to lobbying registration... Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Register Today: 10k Run & Walk Join the legal community in supporting the American Heart Association through Lawyers Have Heart 10k Run and 3k Fun Walk! Saturday, June 8, 2013 at the Washington Harbour at Georgetown. Set up a team from your office and compete for bragging rights! - Presented in partnership by McDermott Will & Emery Click here | As part of a plea deal with federal prosecutors in the late 1990s, Charles Bender agreed to cooperate with law enforcement authorities in future investigations. Several months later, Bender reported to the FBI that a fellow prison inmate, William Watson,... Read More » The U.S. Senate will consider two nominees for District of Columbia Superior Court following a favorable vote yesterday by a Senate committee. Nominees Robert Okun and Michael O'Keefe appeared a week ago before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and... Read More » Oklahoma Attorney General E. Scott Pruitt is already cracking down on price gouging, identity theft and charitable fraud after a tornado destroyed an Oklahoma City suburb. Read More » Vermont has become the first state in the nation to file a so-called "patent troll" lawsuit, taking action Wednesday against a company that has written to a number of businesses claiming patents to technology that attaches scanned documents to e-mails over company computer networks. Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES Untimely petition for relief under National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act may qualify for attorney fee award if filed in good faith and if basis for claim is reasonable (Sotomayor, J.) Read More » Part owner of British corporation was entitled to claim U.S. foreign tax credits for one-time windfall tax imposed by British government on privatized British companies (Thomas, J.) Read More » Michigan supreme court's rejection of due process claim challenging trial court's refusal to consider diminished capacity claim on retrial was not so lacking in justification as to justify federal habeas relief (Ginsburg, J.) Read More » Courts must apply Chevron deference in reviewing agency determinations as to scope of agency's jurisdictional authority (Scalia, J.) Read More » Bankruptcy Code term "defalcation" includes culpable state of mind requirement involving knowledge of, or gross negligence in respect to, improper nature of fiduciary behavior (Breyer, J.) Read More » Patent exhaustion doctrine did not apply to allow farmer to reproduce patented seeds by planting and harvesting saved seeds without patent holder's permission (Kagan, J.) Read More » | 
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